1 Kings 8:27

8:27 “God does not really live on the earth! 1  Look, if the sky and the highest heaven cannot contain you, how much less this temple I have built!

1 Kings 18:32

18:32 With the stones he constructed an altar for the Lord. 2  Around the altar he made a trench large enough to contain two seahs 3  of seed.

1 tn Heb “Indeed, can God really live on the earth?” The rhetorical question expects the answer, “Of course not,” the force of which the translation above seeks to reflect.

2 tn Heb “and he built the stones into an altar in the name of the Lord.”

3 tn A seah was a dry measure equivalent to about seven quarts.